>>17178898I unironically support this. When NJPW or Noah do their little press conferences everyone treats it as a shoot, which make shit like Kenoh setting his foot on fire or basically an KENTA presser even more sports entertaining.
The Rock, Trips, and Tony all coming out, expose the business, talking about production just doesn't do anything for me. It is kind of cool in a behind the scenes way, but it shouldn't be presented as part of the show. The thing that WWE has really been nailing it with lately is the presentation. Since Bucky and Vince are out they have stopped a lot more of the cringe things and created a slicker package with different segments filmed in different styles to highlight the difference of what is on the front stage, back stage, and pretape. When you compare the conference with how the rest of the shows are presented, it ends up feeling very incongruent. If there was a tubi show or something where it followed the production crew and the boys in setting up and preparing for a PLE, and ended with a section that was just Trips answering questions that would be one thing. I just don't cotton to how it is done now. Maybe do like a press conference where you have the talent come out and work in kayfabe with Trips coming out to talk about storylines, and then after that have a shoot press conference where the production and booking stuff gets talked about.
idk, the WWE is doing a lot of great things right now, but if I had to nitpick it would be how the press conferences are presented.
